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UK to bake in 33C amid extreme heat warning

By davieG, in General Chat

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kenny

kenny

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5 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

Think it's just easier to have a temporary timetable or total suspension for the whole day. Leicester to London trains are running some sort of service I believe, yet Cross country trains have suspended the Leicester - Melton - Stansted service completely until Wednesday. None of this helps if you still have to get to work though.

I would probably use the internet to let people know in advance rather than them finding out on the platform that the trains are canned.

The Syrup

The Syrup

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7 minutes ago, kenny said:

I would probably use the internet to let people know in advance rather than them finding out on the platform that the trains are canned.

Revised timetables were published yesterday and online train time checkers are showing this. No reason that people couldn't have found out this info before leaving the house.

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StanSP

StanSP

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47 minutes ago, kenny said:

They are cancelling them in the morning long before it gets to that temperature?

It's called being proactive and not having a train derail due to the buckled tracks and causing costly damage to life or the train itself... 

grobyfox1990

grobyfox1990

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29 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Of course, given sufficient application of that 35 degrees then the question of hunting for enough food and water and finding adequate shelter might arise again.

 

It already is in quite a few places, and there's no reason to suspect that number won't increase in the near and mid term future.

It is going to happen, as I think I’ve said on here a few times, the best long term is housing in Scandinavia. The middle part of the world will be uninhabitable in not too long. Also a good old war doesn’t help. The last time Ukrainian wheat was blocked the Arab spring occurred, this time the social unrest by 100m starving Africans turning up on our doorsteps could be a bit worse! That will give Sandra a reason to tut! 

kenny

kenny

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11 minutes ago, StanSP said:

It's called being proactive and not having a train derail due to the buckled tracks and causing costly damage to life or the train itself... 

Should cancel the trains indefinitely. If they don't run there is no chance they can derail.

 

Plus, they are cancelling them at random, ie the 9am train gets cancelled but the 10am one runs fine.

kenny

kenny

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31 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

Revised timetables were published yesterday and online train time checkers are showing this. No reason that people couldn't have found out this info before leaving the house.

They did. The trains are getting cancelled whilst they are on the platform waiting for them to arrive.

StanSP

StanSP

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6 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

Cancelling some trains and not others surely leads to trains being busier. That's all you need on a hot journey. 

 

Depends if people follow the advice on only needing to travel unless absolutely essential... 

st albans fox

st albans fox

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4 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

I appreciate there is probably more to it but trains all over the world appear to work fine in various extreme weathers but ours seem unable to cope with anything.

Tracks over here are tested to a certain temperature which is below hotter countries. looks like we have to accept delays and cancellations on v hot days or to paint the rails white (will be cheaper than relaying all the tracks!).  

yorkie1999

yorkie1999

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23 minutes ago, foxes1988 said:

Im sure 1976 will be mentioned at some point today :D

Hot summer, 10 weeks of going purple and being chucked a freezing cold bath by your mum and kids setting fire to cornfields for a laugh. Days of our lives.

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Finnegan

Finnegan

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1 hour ago, Legend_in_blue said:

Currently 25 but the over exaggeration of the current temperature on radio phone ins and the presenters running with it is embarrassing.  Ended up turning it off.  People claiming 28 at 845am.  lol

 

Rothley-Mountsorrel weather station currently recording air temperatures of 31 degrees, which is consistent with the BBC Weather Forecast for the day. Temperatures obviously continuing to rise and due to peak late afternoon between 4 and 6. They also still have tomorrow's prediction at 40 for Leicestershire. They're a small independent weather station that have been providing reliable weather data for years, that's not "media hysteria" it's just a local station.

 

That said, I'm really not sure why you think "tHe MeDiA" are lying to you and misreporting the weather forecast?

 

Yes, there's a lot of silly hysteria going on, there always is. But your "oh it's a load of rubbish it's only going to be like twenty something!" or whatever is clearly just as silly. The met office aren't announcing nation wide red weather warnings and predicting the hottest day on record for shits and giggles.

 

Edit: meant to provide a link https://www.stormtrack.co.uk/

 

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Zear0

Zear0

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10 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Wonder if we'll start getting the nasty fish off the coast of Skeggy.

Must. Not. Make. Skeggy. Fish. Finger. Joke.:shutup:

SpacedX

SpacedX

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4 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Is there a correlation between anti vaxers and those who think it won’t be 38/40c or that 38/40c is just a nice summers day ????

 

just kidding of course ……

Given some of the shocking levels of scientific illiteracy on the Covid thread, I absolutely guarantee you that there will be a substantial proportion of members on this forum (possibly some posting here) maintaining climate change is either exaggerated or faked. 

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RoboFox

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12 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Is there a correlation between anti vaxers and those who think it won’t be 38/40c or that 38/40c is just a nice summers day ????

 

just kidding of course ……

Yes.

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leicsmac

leicsmac

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1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

It is going to happen, as I think I’ve said on here a few times, the best long term is housing in Scandinavia. The middle part of the world will be uninhabitable in not too long. Also a good old war doesn’t help. The last time Ukrainian wheat was blocked the Arab spring occurred, this time the social unrest by 100m starving Africans turning up on our doorsteps could be a bit worse! That will give Sandra a reason to tut! 

That's a pretty dark outlook, but I honestly cannot refute it - if anything, it's towards the nicer end of the "bad" outcomes that might lie ahead.

 

 

4 minutes ago, Line-X said:

Given some of the shocking levels of scientific illiteracy on the Covid thread, I absolutely guarantee you that there will be a substantial proportion of members on this forum (possibly some posting here) maintaining climate change is either exaggerated or faked. 

Have a look at some of the threads that mention climate change on here. Yes, there are those who do maintain exactly that.

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